Racist Grandma

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Racism in a regular character: depressing. Racism in a grandma: hilarious.

This is a situation where the old woman who you expect to be a cookie-making nice old lady starts unexpectedly spouting obscenely offensive comments. This is usually Played for Laughs. This can apply to any elderly character and any kind of political incorrectness, although usually it really is racism by a grandma.

Usually the humor derives from the irony of an elderly character using language one would normally associate with a fiery young skinhead. However, it can also be Truth in Television for 21st century demographics. Although obviously not all old people are bigots, old people are more likely to subscribe to pre-civil rights cultural beliefs and are more likely to say inappropriate thoughts out loud. However, this tends to be counterbalanced by the fact that they were raised in a "more polite" era than ours. (More polite, not "polite.") Take Archie Bunker, for instance, who took care to substitute "spade" for "nigger," "hebe" for "kike," etc. It can also be accidental if the grandma is using what was an acceptable termwhen she grew up, without being aware that it is now considered derogatory, (e.g., in the article linked earlier in this paragraph, the author recounts her negative feelings when an elderly man referred to someone as "colored" — but this was in fact the politest term for black people when the man was likely raised, and the chosen way for most black people to describe themselves back then, like the NAACP.) Furthermore, elderly people whose views about minorities really did change with the times may suddenly begin spouting offensive beliefs from their youths if they're suffering from senile dementia.

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While it's tempting to think that this will soon become a Dead Horse Trope, now that the youngest people who came of age before the mid-1960s are now in their seventies and the average life span for most Westerners is about 80, there is evidence that quite a few people actually become bigoted with age. Bitterness about growing old can cause certain people to develop a hostile attitude against most things or even everything in the modern world — even of things that their generation helped to bring about in the first place. For example, a poll (albeit a dubious one, since it took into account a very small sampling of the U.S. population) suggested that a surprisingly large number of Baby Boomers (now in their fifties at the youngest) are now uncomfortable with interracial marriage.

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Anime & Manga

In Future Lovers, Kento's grandfather is dismayed when he finds out that his grandson is dating another man (Akira) and spends the rest of his page time shooting Death Glares at Akira and not-so-subtly indicating his disgust at their relationship. Completely Played for Laughs, with the grandfather's facial expressions being some of the funniest things in this manga.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Joseph Joestar hates Japanese people, and is shown smacking a guy just for being Japanese in the last page of Part 2. In his case, however, it's not about ethnicity - it's because ever since his daughter married a Japanese man, he rarely sees her. Even then, it's an exaggeration, and he grows out of it anyway, since he shows no hate with all the Japanese people he interacts with in the next two parts, moreso the Japan-placed Part 4. Likewise, any genuine disdain would've been browbeat out of him by his grandmother, who averted this trope, notably, as the time periods we see of her own life were not kind to blacks, and yet she and Joseph treat the latter's newfound friend Smokey, an African-American in 1930s New York, as a dear friend.

Comedy

In the Cheech and Chong skit "Hey Margaret", an elderly couple, Harry (Chong) and Margaret (Cheech), see a porno movie. Everything in the movie amuses Harry, but he's disgusted when the star has sex with a black man. For Margaret, it's the exact opposite: it's the only thing in the movie that arouses her.

George Lopez's stand-up routines always incorporate anecdotes showing just how bigoted his grandmother (the one who raised him) is/was toward black people. He stated that his retaliation for that is by hiring the darkest-skinned black nurses for her home health care needs when she grew frail and infirm.

Frankie Boyle: "No, Granddad, we don't care how many Jews you killed!"

In his comedy special Bigger and Blacker, Chris Rock says old black men are the most racist people. "Nothing more racist than a old black man, you know why? 'Cause the old black man went through some real racism. He ain't go through that 'I can't get a cab' shit. He was the cab! White man just jump on his back: 'Main Street!'"

Bill Burr also had a bit concerning his very white, very Irish grandmother, who didn't react well at all to learning that Bill's girlfriend (now wife) Nia is black. However, Burr doesn't come down quite as hard on racist grandmas as most do, taking into account that old habits die hard, and someone in their late eighties today would have grown up during a time when racial segregation was an accepted norm.

Comic Books

In Maus, Artie's holocaust-surviving father ironically has resentments against African-Americans. Taken into account that this is a drawn memoir, it also qualifies as Truth in Television.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer has the older Dracula who offends Xander's girlfriend Renee and slurs about the Japanese vampires.

Mom: That's the most adorable little colored girl playing outside. Steve: "Colored"? You're saying "colored people" in 1988? You know better, Ma. Mom: Then why the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People? I don't think Negroes mind at all. Steve:DON'T say negroes, Ma! You can't say negroes! Mom: Can I say "United Negro College Fund"? Steve: You are baiting me, Ma...Let's just agree to use the term "people of color." Mom: People of color? Steve: People of color. Mom: ...colored people. Steve:MA!

Fan Works

Dr Briefs in Dragonball Z Abridged constantly spouts racism, sexism, homophobia, and every other far-right talking point, always with the same cheerful expression from his original kindly Dragon Ball Z incarnation, though he's still very much a good guy. He's even a literal racist grandpa.

Dr. Briefs: [Baby trunks] sure does cry a lot. Do you think he gets that from his monkey side? Bulma: Dad! No racism in front of Trunks! Dr. Briefs: Oh come on, I'm using "monkey" ironically. Mostly. Half-and-Half. Like the baby.

The Golds: Moe French seemed to be in the band-camp of people that saw his own granddaughter as a threat and joined in on the mob that declared her a monster.

The Merry Go Round Broke Down depicts older toons as hating the newer computer-generated digis. Bugs Bunny is depicted as a grumpy old racist who rarely leaves his house anymore now that his fame has dwindled. He especially hates digis for stealing the spotlight of traditionally animated toons. Bugs doesn't care if digis are getting murdered left and right; if anything, it makes him happier.

Films — Animation

The deleted scene "Homesick Hopps" from Zootopia is an alternate version of the scene where Judy calls home after her first day on the force and has Judy's grandfather, Pop-Pop, declare "Foxes are red because they were made by the devil!".

Films — Live-Action

Woody Allen's Annie Hall: "Y'know, you're what Grammy Hall would call 'A real Jew!'... She hates the Jews" At a later scene when Alvy is having dinner with Annie and her family, you see her disapproving Grammy's POV of Alvy as a stereotypical Hasidic Jew. This, despite Alvy complimenting the ham Annie's mother cooked, something a religious Jew would never be allowed to eat.

Schwarzfahrer, an excellent German short, features one who keeps ranting racist remarks at another passenger. Funny twist at the end, though - two, in fact.

Gran Torino deconstructs this trope: The whole point of the movie is that Walt realizes the people at whom he has being directing racial slurs all his life are Not So Different, that his experience as a soldier let him know much more about death than about life, and that explains why he is so lonely and sad.

Mrs. Arness, though it's more that she's just out-of-touch in general: "There's a lovely Negro spiritual that Ivy's brother used to sing..."

Mrs. Kline across the street. Unlike Arness, who's merely tactless, Kline is very much a racist.

"Negro" was a perfectly polite and respectful word - used by blacks themselves, too - until about the early 1970s. It only got changed because those in the "Black Power" movement wanted to redeem a word that up until then had been associated with darkness and evil - and also because they associated "Negro" with the cowardly, apolitical "Uncle Tom" blacks whom they considered traitors. "Negro spiritual" is essentially a musical genre name still in use today, hardly a racial slur. Go ahead, Google it.

In Blazing Saddles, the black sheriff wishes an elderly woman a good morning. Her reply?

"UP YOURS, NIGGER!"

Of course only a few hours later she apologizes after said sheriff proves that he actually can do the job, if by some... unusual methods. Her attitude is justified as the story is set in 1874.

The sweet little grandma in Wedding Crashers is pretty anti-gay. Apparently, Eleanor Roosevelt was a "rug-munching dyke" but that would be something of a subversion, as those are all very new slang.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding has a little granny from the Greek side of the newlyweds that constantly complains about Turks: "Turci Sacramenti!" Greece was a Turkish colony for a few centuries, too, so it wouldn't be surprising if many self-professed Greeks have Turkish blood. Racism has as much to do with nationality as ethnicity and the two countries have come perilously close to going to war within living memory.

"I've worked in worse places, philosophically speaking. I used to work in the Académie Française But it didn't do me any good at all And I once worked in the library in the Prado in Madrid But it didn't teach me nothing, I recall And the Library of Congress you'd have thought would hold some key But it didn't, and neither did the Bodleian Library In the British Museum I hoped to find some clue I worked there from nine till six, read every volume through But it didn't teach me nothing about life's mystery I just kept getting older, and it got more difficult to see Till, eventually, me eyes went and me arthritis got bad And so now I'm cleaning up in here, but I can't be really sad 'Cause, you see, I feel that life's a game You sometimes win or lose And though I may be down right now At least I don't work for Jews."

Ghosts of Mississippi: Byron de la Beckwith (James Woods in heavy old-man makeup) pretends to be this after the cold case against his 1963 murder of civil-rights activist Medgar Evers is reopened in the 1990s by attorney Bobby DeLaughter (Alec Baldwin). Beckwith repeatedly denies having committed the murder, all the while expressing glee that Evers is dead. As the trial is reaching its conclusion, Beckwith has a chance meeting with DeLaughter and taunts him, claiming that even if he had done the killing, none of the jurors - not even the black ones - would convict him, because they'd view him as a confused old man and feel sorry for him. (Never mind that Beckwith was more than 30 years younger at the time of the murder!) He is wrong.

The actual Beckwith was also much like this, even to the point of seeming schizophrenic. He could seem perfectly calm and halfway reasonable when discussing his bigoted views, but as soon as he lost his temper a far more violent streak would present itself.

Subverted in the otherwise forgettable Cabin Fever - when asked what a prominently displayed rifle is for, the elderly store owner replies "It's fer niggers." At the end of the movie, we see a group of young black people drive up to the store, prompting the owner to hurry inside. He then hands the gun to one of the group and cheerily says "What's up, my nigger?"

In The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Muriel Donnelly refuses treatment by a non-Anglo doctor until it's her only given option. She's none too happy about going to India for fast, inexpensive surgery. Her attitude, of course, improves.

Literature

Charlie's grandfather in The Perks Of Being A Wall Flower is this. It's not a major part of the story, and it's implied his mental facilities are fading, leading him to be less socially aware.

In Barrayar, Count Piotr is so anti-mutant that he tries to bribe the doctor who is treating his grandson's fetus (damaged and in an artificial womb because his mother was pregnant during a chemical attack) to kill the child. He also ejects Aral and Cordelia from Vorkosigan House, and later on it is revealed that he tried to murder Miles in his crib with his own hands, prevented only by Miles' bodyguard. Miles has a bodyguard from birth because Piotr is not the only racist grandma around. He does get a bit better later on, after Miles's intelligence begins to show; he is still a prejudiced, reactionary, embittered old man, but he not only stops trying to kill Miles, but actually becomes a (rather distant and authoritarian) mentor figure.

Funny Boy: Ammachi ("Grandma") has the most virulent reaction to Radha's relationship with Anil, and talks openly about her approval of the terrorist Tamil group, the Tigers. Possibly a subversion in that this actually isn't so far from how other family members feel at different points in the book, but Ammachi is vocal about it before the others are.

Marvolo Gaunt qualifies as this, given his opinions on non-pure-blood wizards. Subverted, however, since 1.) He has been dead for roughly 70 years before the start of the series, and 2.) his grandson is actually muchworse.

And according to Pottermore, Lucius Malfoy never let go of his anti-muggle views even into old age. As a result, Draco and his wife Astoria didn't allow their son Scorpius to spend much time around Lucius during already-tense family gatherings.

Good Omens: Sergeant Shadwell isn't a grandfather (thank God), but is racist towards just about everything and everyone.

Shadwell hated all Southerners, and by inference, lived at the North Pole.

The Key To Rondo: Grandma certainly gives off this impression when expressing her disapproval of the Terlamaine woman Tye's presence in her house.

Discworld: the elderly Sergeant Fred Colon is a grandfather and soldiers on in the city watch despite being well over sixty. He is described as being racist - anyone who is not a white (human) male is treated with a certain disdainful dismissive suspicion - but "racist" in such a vague and inclusive way that nobody takes offence, and just treats it as an example of "ol' Fred".

The Caroline B. Cooney novel Burning Up has this trope as one of the ongoing factors. The protagonist is doing a report on a barn fire that almost killed a Black teacher in her hometown during the 1960s, and is beginning to discover a rather ugly side to her beloved grandparents and the community she's grown up in. It turns out no, her grandparents didn't start the fire, but they also did nothing to help the teacher. They simply stood aside and watched the barn burn while making racist jokes about how they were finally able to get rid of the teacher.

Played very seriously in Flannery OConnor's short story Everything That Rises Must Converge, which centers around a fifty-some year old man taking his elderly mother on a bus ride to the YMCA. While on the bus, the old woman condescendingly offers a little black boy a penny, and gets called on it by the boy's mother. After getting off the bus, the woman's son confronts her about her racism and she is implied to have a stroke in response.

Leslie once got together all the former heads of her department for a picnic. The oldest one had an outdated sexist attitude and hilariously couldn't stop talking about menstruation and how it supposedly makes women inferior.

There's also Councilman Milton, who frequently makes racially insensitive remarks and was voted in on the promise that he would make the local baseball teams racially segregated again.

In ER, one old lady once said to Benton that she is uncomfortable with a black doctor examining her. Oh, and that lady? She was black, too.

Played with in Dollhouse, where a Racist Grandma imprint was (for God knows what reason) put on Sierra, the doll portrayed by Nepali-Australian actress Dichen Lachman. Made funnier because it had a mix of Foe Yay in it as well, also for God knows what reason. Seeing as the Doll was contacted (and probably requested) by none other than the Laughably EvilManipulative Bastard known as Alpha, it's likely that he just did it For the Lulz.

Most sexist or racist things that Pierce says can be chalked up to being significantly older than the rest of the cast, and he's an Innocent Bigot when compared to Cornelius, his astonishingly old-timey father. Cornelius is actively malicious in his bigotry, and not only berates Pierce for associating with "minorities and Jewesses," but goes after the very white Brita and Jeff for being of Swedish and Welsh descent respectively. Shirley calls him "The Abed of racism".

Shirley herself is quite racist and religiously prejudiced, it's just usually overshadowed by Pierce. When it looks like Pierce is going to be kicked out of the group, Abed warns her that she'll become the new creepy racist. She immediately makes a racist comment.

Lampshaded in an episode of Star Trek, where Abe Lincoln (it's complicated) calls Uhura a "charming negress", then promptly apologizes. (Uhura wasn't offended, as both the term, and anti-African racism, are ancient oddities in her time. Also, Abraham Lincoln.)

An episode of Murphy Brown dealing with FYI trying out a radically different format had Murphy interviewing an "ordinary American citizen". Said citizen being a meek and extremely polite old lady...who quickly derails the interview into expressing her displeasure about the different ethnic groups in her neighborhood. This coupled with the sheer ridiculousness of the new format eventually prompts Murphy to explode at her.

In an episode of Louie, Louis C.K. has a grandmother like this, and he is really uncomfortable having his daughters around her. He explains to his older daughter that she was born in a different time.

In Redfern Now, Corral is an Aboriginal Australian woman who is racist against all Aboriginal men, and wants her granddaughter to marry a hardworking white boy. She actually refuses to talk to her daughter because she married an Aboriginal man, and expresses distaste for Indians, people with poor English, doctors, and, in fact, almost everyone.

In "Franks Sets Sweet Dee on Fire" the gang attempts to do an expose series at on old folks home. The first lady they talk to says that the one thing she dislikes about the place "is the blacks", leading Mac and the others to immediately end the interview rather than talk to a crazy old racist.

Frank himself is the oldest of The Gang and is the most blatantly racist of them all. While the other members of The Gang are merely ignorant at best, Frank is blatantly xenophobic and treats others (especially Jews) with disgust.

Jack: What happened to your eye? Did you really fall? Colleen: I was watching TV and they started interviewing an Asian Santa Claus and my arm went numb. Jack: And you called me? Mother, call an ambulance! Colleen: My father did not kill dozens of Germans so that his daughter could die in a van. Jack: But he wasn't even in the war!

Discussed on QI, where Jack Whitehall said he'd like to invent dentures that sense racism and clamp shut.

Stephen Fry: The keyword would be 'but', wouldn't it? Nothing against them personally, but- *chomp*

In an episode of the early 1990s US sitcom Home Fires the grandmother suddenly blurts out (for no apparent reason) "if there's no reverse discrimination, how come there are so many negros in the NBA?"

In Fawlty Towers, Major Gowen (a slightly senile retired army officer and permanent resident of the hotel) on one occasion relates a tale where he takes his ex to a cricket match and tries to explain the exact difference between which racist term you use for Indians from India and which you use for Afro-Carribean West Indians. (In recent years the BBC cut this line from re-runs to avoid causing offence- what was poking harmless fun at an out-of-touch old man in The '70s, is less acceptable to some now, though others objected to the cut.)

Male example: In one episode, Drew writes a speech to one of the store's directors to show how well the store is doing, only for the director to highjack the speech and go on a racist and homophobic rant.

In an earlier episode, Drew wanted to quit his dead end job, and asked his dad to talk to one of his buddies if he could get hired in one of their companies. They invited Drew, Lewis, and Oswald to their lodge to talk about possible employment opportunities. Drew ultimately refused their offers because the members, old white men, spent their time in the lodge telling racist jokes.

Sex and the City. Charlotte's husband Trey confides in his overbearing mother Bunny that Charlotte has put them on a list for adoption of a Chinese baby. In response, Bunny snootily informs Charlotte that "The MacDougall name will be carried on by sons of your own, not daughters of the South Pacific.", thus adding a little sexism to her bigotry as well.

The protagonists on Good Girls have a need to raise a lot of money or else be murdered. They devise a plan to rob Marion, the grandmother of Annie's vile boss Boomer. She consoles herself with her grandson's (possibly fictional) fiancee being only half-Mexican and makes Ruby (who's black) do housework for her while exempting Beth and Annie (both white.)

Doctor Who: A "sexist grandpa" variation: In "Twice Upon A Time," the twelfth Doctor encounters the first Doctor, who repeatedly makes sexist remarks. The values dissonance is played for comedy each time:

First: I am the Doctor, and this is my...my nurse. I realize that seems a little improbable, because he's a man. Older gentlemen, like women, can be put to use. Twelfth: You can't...you can't say things like that. First: Can't I? Says who? Twelfth: Just about everyone you're going to meet for the rest of your life.

Music

The Brian Haner song "Grandma Was a Racist".

In Kunt and the Gang's "Fucksticks" Kunt mentions that one of the times his granddad used the eponymous swear was "when the first black people moved into his street."

His grandma as well, as per "Let's Send Nan to Dignitas:"

She's been around, she's racist, she hates foreigners with a passion She uses the B- and N-words like they're going out of fashion.

Radio

Referenced in an episode of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, when Miles Jupp is asked to complete "Grandma, We Love You" by the St Winifred Girls' School Choir:

Jack: Grandma, we love you, Grandma, we do, Though you may be far away, We think of you, And one day when we're older, We'll look back and say... Miles: In retrospect, she was actually quite racist, wasn't she?

Theatre

Three Tall Women: 92-year-old "A" is quite the racist, ranting about Jews and "uppity n——-s". This disgusts 26-year-old C, which becomes pretty ironic in Act II when we find out that A, B, and C are all the same person.

Video Games

Present in the Mass Effect series, where many of the older generation that lived through the First Contact War are xenophobic or distrustful of the other alien species, with many human supremacist groups such as Cerberus and Terra Firma existing.

Similarly, despite Pressley and Dr Chakwas being some of the nicest older crewmembers on the Normandy, the former is initially distrustful of the various aliens Shepard brings onboard and the latter admits in the third game that while she considers her a friend, she doesn't consider AI like EDI to be "alive".

George of Stardew Valley is a rather more modern take on the trope: a Homophobic Grandpa. If you romance his grandson Alex as a male character, he's initially quite befuddled by the idea of two young men getting married, and dismisses it "unnatural". Eventually he drops this attitude and admits he may just be "old-fashioned".

Torbjörn from Overwatch hates Omnics (robots), and will sometimes express frustration at playing in a map set in an Omnic-friendly location (such as Numbani or Nepal).

Lampshaded in Partially Clips: A girl asks her grandpa why he never gives her any advice on life. He replies that his grandpa advised him, (paraphrased) "Son, if you ever find yourself with a good woman, don't be afraid to give her a good smack now and then. Keeps her in line. And don't take no gruff from any blacks, either." He concludes that you should never give advice when you're old, because you'll inevitably come off as an insensitive and possibly racist Jerkass.

The furry webcomic Goblin Hollow has Lily's grandfather and grandmother who have a problem with Lily (a cougar-African lion hybrid) dating Ben (a bear). Even Lily's father admits that Lily's grandparents are raving bigots.

In Better Days, Fisk and Lucy's maternal grandparents are racist towards Hyenas (read: black people). This causes some tension when their aunt brings her hyena boyfriend over for a visit (implied to have done so specifically to annoy her parents). Their mom asks the grandmother at one point to not use racial slurs towards the boyfriend, and the grandmother concedes that times have changed. It's also mentioned that the boyfriend can't go with the family to visit the grandfather in the hospital for this reason.

In The Bedfellows, Sheen's mom expresses hate speech towards lizards in the strip "Dinner", to the chagrin of Sheen.

Web Original

In one Something Awful "Fashion SWAT" segment, they discussed this in regard of an old lady: "In old lady hell, the candy is the delicious kind that everyone likes" "And people call them out on all the racist stuff they say" "Eh, who knows, maybe the time we get old, stuff we say will be seen weird 'Gee, I think someone should do something about all those pedophiles having sex on the streets.'"

Lampshaded in a video done by Sarah Silverman, telling young, liberal Jews to visit their grandparents in Florida to encourage them to transcend their racial prejudices and vote for Barack Obama. She recommends holding over them the threat of no longer being visited if they don't vote for him.

In an episode of Feed Dump that aired around Thanksgiving in the United States, one of the characters said that she was thankful that her racist aunt had become too deaf to talk at dinner.

Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Parodied with Dr. Briefs (Bulma's dad), who considers his own grandson a half-breed (and doesn't hesitate to call him that due to being half-Saiyan), is a homophobe, a misogynist, a xenophobe, and even standard racist, but never voices these comments aggressively (nor do any of the cast call him out on it).

Uncle Ruckus is definitely a Racist Grandpa. He's an old man who grew up in the Deep South during the Jim Crow era, personally opposed the Civil Rights Movement when it was still active, and he's a very vocal white supremacist who openly despises black people (and of course all other non-white races). Though ironically, he's actually a black man himself, but believes that he's white. Unsurprisingly, he gets along very well with Mrs. von Heusen (who's described below). But his father Mister Ruckus is another story (also described below).

Betty von Heusen is a more conventional Racist Grandma. She's an elderly, paranoidgun-hoarder who leads the local neighborhood watch. After a series of home burglaries, she's suspicious of her (black) neighbor Robert Freeman due to his unwillingness to join the neighborhood watch or cooperate with them, even though his house was also robbed. In a later episode, Mrs. von Heusen is shown to be unambiguously and unquestionably racist, when she and her friends fired their guns in the direction of a crowd of black protesters while calling them "niggers".

In an episode of American Dad!, Roger feels unappreciated by Stan and runs away, disguising himself as an old lady. He befriends another old woman and they get along for a while... up until she spits on the Lincoln Memorial and says "That's for freeing the slaves, you negro-loving Yankee devil!" She spends the rest of the episode making such slurs against everyone (even other whites) so by the time Stan offers her to the CIA and claims she's the escaped alien, nobody cares.

A Static Shock episode showed that Richie Foley's Dad was a racist. One of the few cases the change of heart is made (somewhat) realistically. At least as realistically as it can be expected in a series with superpowered individuals.

Mrs. Pewterschmidt has found her husband cheating on her and leaves him. Peter suggests that Mr. Pewterschmidt get back on the dating scene, and takes him out to a club. Mr. Pewterschmidt sees a black man at the club and thinks he's a waiter or servant, and refers to him as "boy," which causes the women that Mr. Pewterschmidt was with to leave in disgust along with the black man. Mr. Pewterschmidt's first assumption upon noticing their disgust was the black man being "somebody else's" property (which is strange, because, unless Carter is immortal, there's no way he could remember when slavery existed). He also gives his own wife a hard time for being Jewish, something she's deeply regretted allowing him to do.

Peter's father Francis Griffin, a deeply-unpleasant man in general, has a special grudge against Lois for being non-Catholic. Among other things, he appended the "Just Married" sign on the back of the limo they left their wedding in with, "to a Protestant whore". His idea of complimenting Lois is telling her "Maybe you won't burn in Hell after all, you'll just go to Purgatory with all the unbaptized babies."

In Generator Rex, there was an old lady who despises Evo's and believes that Evo's and humans don't mix. So she teams up with another Evo to set an example of it all by blowing up a cave full of humans and Evo's.

Braceface had the episode "Grey Matters", which featured Sharon's Grandpa. However, unlike some other examples, he isn't a hateful man in the slightest. He's actually quite a nice guy. However, he believes in several racial stereotypes (Arabs having harems, Asians being bad drivers), and jokes around about this with Sharon's friend Maria and her boyfriend, who are Asian and Arabian. Her boyfriend playfully runs with it, while Maria is offended. It's implied that he gets over it by the end of the episode.

In the Wander over Yonder episode "The Family Reunion", Wander meets his partner Sylvia's family. While Sylvia's mother and brothers are fairly welcoming of Wander, her grandmother calls him a "filthy space hippie" and accuses him of wanting to steal her purse.

Gramps Unit, the grandfather of the titular character of Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, generally views humans in contempt. His grandson even worries that he'll kill human guests he invited over in "House Party".

In Futurama, Professor Farnsworth is over 100 years old and is sometimes shown to be of the Fantastic Racism variety. Take this quote from "Fry and the Slurm Factory", for instance.

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